Trump's latest budget is the culmination of 40 years of increasing social control in America. Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private contractors, like the drone manufacturers Trump's sons are now major investors in. All of this is absurd.

Great.

Bahahahah they must be absolutely out of assets to sell. Any bank that backs this deserves to lose every single penny

Linux and LibreOffice user here and I love this so much

Also, even if that were true, that’s fucking monstrous? Are we not supposed to care when people who have other health problems die?

Ominous.

Holy shit. The FBI raided this woman's house with a helicopter based on the word of a "gait analysis" quack they found on X.

it's mind blowing to think about how much Elon fumbled his legacy. ten years ago 'wide swathes of the federal govt fleet will potentially be electrified' would have been met with massive adulation from liberals and the left. now people are (very understandably) against it because he's so untrusted.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes

“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” - George W Bush, Jan 2003

Just out here bragging about how effective the war crimes are

In 1968, scientists briefed the American Petroleum Institute on the potential impacts of CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels. Their report projected that atmospheric CO₂ could reach 400ppm by 2000, causing “serious world-wide environmental changes.” Last year, Earth’s CO₂ levels surpassed 430 ppm. 😑

Tesla ran a pipe into a ditch, which inspectors found a black liquid pouring out of. The liquid tested positive for hexavalent chromium, familiar to anybody who has seen “Erin Brockovich.”

It is not outrageous for Canadian provinces to respond to a trade war (started in breach of our existing agreements) and threats of annexation with a targeted import limitation. Our government is run by bad people who are also bad at their jobs. Canadians are wholly right to retaliate as they did.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up” The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count. theintercept.com/2026/04/22/i...

NEW from me: According to USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, the DOGE takeover was even worse than we knew, rife with conflict between political appointees who wanted an orderly "drawdown" and a DOGE team that wanted to flip the kill switch. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

I want to see a broadcast interview where a senior Microsoft executive is asked to move from Old Outlook to New Outlook without Outlook losing all their contacts, and then has to explain why anyone would trust their company to build an Artificial Intelligence.

At least 34 tankers with links to Iran have bypassed the US military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz since it began, including several carrying Iranian oil—despite Trump declaring the blockade a “tremendous success”

Thankx to THE BOSS for having Public Enemy perform at Springsteen Center American Music Honors ,, we should all always continue to FIGHT THE POWER

I'm always struck by how seriously all these gentlemen take themselves as they engage in the laziest, most corrupt attempt to pretend they're engaging in serious, adult, good faith interpretation of consumer protection standards the press certainly helps by framing it as good faith seriousness

I was invited specifically to articulate the "pro-230" position, Nadine Farid Johnson from @knightcolumbia.org was there as the "moderate" on it, a plaintiffs' lawyer was the "anti." I thought Nadine's testimony was very solid (though I disagree at some margins). It's all here.

serious work, just not by the people who actually do the serous work. By this logic, we want judges to be tabula rasa thought experiment zombies who have been raised without exposure to culture of any kind

We need to go bigger with this and start making real hay out of the inarguable fact that no MAGA person, appointee or otherwise, can assert reality

A Massachusetts resident came to Boston Medical Center exhausted and dizzy. Her family couldn't afford AC and relied on fans to stay cool. Climate, affordability, and public health are interconnected. That's why I'm fighting to protect our climate regulations. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/an-e...

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

For Taco Tuesday I wrote a long post which, buried w/in it, includes a description of 2 acute psychological dilemmas Trump is facing. 1) To win v Iran, Trump has to fight Putin 2) To make a deal, Trump has to admit Obama is smarter than him Neither is tenable. emptywheel.net/2026/04/21/t...

Every humiliation is a renewable resource, and the nosedive it powers gets steeper each time.

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

ok that’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard about

Ruby Bridges is 8 years younger than the President.

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

sorry, video didn't upload here 👆 apparently. here's the clip

Extra points for the correct usage of the word 'kayfabe' in a non-prowrestling context

"Gone is the notion that striving will result in a better station in life (for you). Gone is the accumulation of wealth and property (for you). Gone even is very the concept of ownership (for you). Those things exist only for us now. They are our cross to bear."

This woman has gone full zombie Either that or see if her blinks are Morse code because they've got someone she loves hostage

if you run candidates who don't suck shit you don't have to spend so much time scolding people who say "hey this candidate sucks shit"

yiiiikes

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite!"

BREAKING: During an emergency White House meeting, President Trump reportedly attempted to access the nuclear codes but was blocked by General Dan Caine, according to former CIA analyst Larry Johnson.

"Court documents show Trump knew he was going to tear down the East Wing at least two months before doing so, but he never told the public."

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/p... 2/

Here’s the 5th Circuit’s opinion openly and directly defying an on-point Supreme Court precedent that prohibits the display of the 10 Commandments in public school classrooms. Shameless defiance of SCOTUS, but we’ll see if the supermajority cares. txvalues.org/wp-content/u...

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants